Artist Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time, it’s just that others are behind the times.”
– Martha Graham

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.”
– Martin Scorsese

The term ‘giant’ is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.”
– Martin Scorsese

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
– Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.”
– Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.”
– Miranda Lambert

“The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we’ll do it for nothing. That’s a basic fact – you gotta do it.”
– Morgan Freeman

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.”
– Neil Gaiman

“Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they’re also artists.”
– Neve Campbell

“My dad‘s side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There’s an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It’s very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It’s very warm, it’s very up, it’s very down. I would celebrate that.”
– Nick Clegg

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, ‘Where’s the art?’ They weren’t doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had… maybe I could even quit renting.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.”
– Pablo Casals

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
– Pablo Picasso

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
– Pablo Picasso

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
– Pablo Picasso

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”
– Pablo Picasso

“What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
– Pablo Picasso

“When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
– Pablo Picasso

“An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn’t know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.”
– Patti Smith

“The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.”
– Piet Mondrian

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
– Rick Riordan

“A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.”
– Robert Engman

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”
– Robert Henri

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